Jon Zeolla
Founder at Hampton
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJon Zeolla is a founder and cloud-native security engineer with 11 years of experience automating governance and eliminating operational toil for large enterprises. He leads Zenable.io and co-founded Seiso, where he builds policy-as-code systems that simplify compliance, threat detection, and incident mitigation across Kubernetes and serverless environments. A SANS instructor and IANS faculty member, he translates hands-on technical work into teachable frameworks for practitioners and executives alike. Jon is an active open-source contributor—his work on Apache Metron included bug fixes, dependency updates, and stability improvements for telemetry pipelines—which complements his practical background in distributed systems and data-driven security from Carnegie Mellon. Based in Pittsburgh, he also founded regional security communities (Steel City InfoSec, PittSec, BSidesPGH), showing a consistent drive to convene practitioners and reduce manual drudgery through automation. His GitHub handle, "AI Janitor," hints at a pragmatic focus: using automation and AI to clean up repetitive operational work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Cyber Forensics and Information Security, B.S. Cyber Forensics and Information Security at Robert Morris UniversityA.S. Information Technology; Network Security and Computer Forensics, A.S. Information Technology; Network Security and Computer Forensics at Pittsburgh Technical Institute
English, American Sign Language, Japanese
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Github Skills (17)
bash10
amazon-elasticsearch9
kibana9
kafka9
ansible9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
ansible-galaxy9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
documentation8
javas8
java8
devops8
powershell6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
apache/metron
May 2016 - May 2019
Apache Metron
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits, 92 PRs, 420 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jon contributed to the Apache Metron project by fixing documentation issues, addressing a Kafka-related segfault in the Bro sensor plugin, and adding virtualization support checks to the platform-info script. They also upgraded the Bro version, fixed documentation errors, and updated Elasticsearch and Kibana dependencies. The user's work primarily focused on improving existing functionalities, fixing bugs, and maintaining the project's infrastructure and documentation.
javametronapache
JonZeolla/tag-security
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
😎CNCF Special Interest Group on Security -- secure access, policy control, privacy, auditing, explainability and more!
Contributions:27 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 4 months
policysecureprivacyinterest-groupsecurity
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